The ordeal comes after Upson contacted Auckland Transport about faded road markings in January.
On January 8, he said he got an email about the roads being swept – he claims they hadn’t – then on February 9 there was a truck on site sweeping the roads.
But that method “didn’t work unfortunately”, Upson said.
“The method they’ve used, you know, it’s the big truck with the big roller on front and, I mean, that’s a great method for clearing loose stones off a roading project or something like that but unfortunately that method doesn’t get close enough to the edge.
“It’s also just gone overtop of the mud so that big roller, that big sweeper roller on the front of trucks, it simply hasn’t done the job of clearing that layer of mud… and it was quite solid so it needed a bit more of a mechanical, a water blaster might have worked, but I used a spade.”
Upson described how he went along the road edge with a spade and lifted the mud off “quite easily”.
So, he contacted Auckland Transport yet again. On Monday night, he got an email response that they’re “going to look into it”.
“Where it goes from here I don’t know.”
An Auckland Transport spokesperson told Newshub it was first made aware of this on Friday.
“Our contractor is responsible for maintaining the visibility of the road markings and whenever these fade or are done incorrectly, they will rectify as soon as possible – at no extra cost to AT,” the spokesperson said.
But Tāmaki Makaurau isn’t the only region with road marking issues.